EXCELSIOR! Missouri AG intervenes in case against St. Louis couple who defended their home with guns

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Missouri AG intervenes in case against St. Louis couple who defended their home with guns

By: Law Enforcement Today

Editor note: A previous version of this story suggested all charges were dropped against the couple.  That is not yet formally the case.  The Missouri AG is still seeking to dismiss the case.  We’ll be sure to keep you updated on this breaking story as new details become available.

ST. LOUIS, MO – Kim Gardner, Circuit Attorney for St. Louis, brought charges against a local couple last month who were caught on video brandishing weapons on the porch of their mansion. Now the Missouri Attorney General is stepping in.

Mark and Patricia McCloskey’s response to a mob of protesters tearing down the gate to a private driveway and trespassing across their yard went viral.

The McCloskey’s who are both attorneys, were eating dinner on their patio when several hundred Black Lives Matter protesters, tore down a gate to gain access to a private community that was clearly marked as private with “No Trespassing” signs.

Mark McCloskey claims that the protesters began making threats towards his wife and himself. He went into the home and retrieved a pistol and what appeared to be an AR-15.

Luckily, no one was injured, and the guns that the McCloskey’s legally owned did the trick by keeping the protesters from causing them harm.

According to The Lion Times:

“Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt is intervening in state Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s legal action against Mark and Patricia McCloskey, for brandishing a rifle.

The McCloskeys took up arms when extreme ‘anarchist’ demonstrators gathered outside their home on June 28. The weapon was confiscated after the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department searched the property.

The AG released a video on Twitter, where he stated:

“As Missouri’s chief law enforcement officer, I simply will not stand by while Missouri laws are being ignored.

That is why I am entering the case in terms of seeking the dismissal of the case to protect the rights of Missourians to defend themselves in their property under Missouri’s castle doctrine.”

We provided a breakdown of the Missouri laws around self defense in a previous article, which will be shared again below

Schmitt said:

“The right to keep and bear arms is given the highest level of protection in the Missouri Constitution and their laws, which I am charged for protecting,” 

He continued:

“This includes the Missouri castle doctrine, which provides broad rights for Missourians to protect and defend their personal safety, and property against those who wish to do them harm.”

The attorney general said that the charges issued by Gardner was nothing more than politics.

“The shameless circuit attorney filed suit against a St. Louis couple who, according to published reports, say they were doing just that–defending the safety of their property,” 

He went on to say:

“A political prosecution, such as this one, would have a chilling effect on Missourians exercising their right to self-defense. The law of Missouri is clear and must be protected … enough is enough.”

We have not been able to confirm that McCloskey will get his illegally seized weapon returned to him.

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Yeah, but the Missouri AG hasn’t gotten the prosecutor to drop the case yet. Those two should have never been charged.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

What about the forensic officials that tampered with evidence? The handgun, upon arrival, had been assembled (someone needs to show them a 90 second video on field stripping and assembly), where the spring was in front of the firing pin, rendering the handgun inoperable.

The legal department assembled it correctly, making it a deadly weapon.

What’s the sentence meted, in Missouri, for sworn legal officials tampering with evidence?

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago

what about the rifle the protestor pointed at them? Where is that?

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

I believe that videos, previously unreleased, show several firearms pointed at them.

movingwaters
movingwaters
3 years ago

The so called officials will not be sentenced. We live in a country now where there is one set of rules for them, and another set of rules for us. This is opposite what the Founders of the USA wanted.

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago
Reply to  movingwaters

THE LEFT HAS THE GOLD OF THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE BEHIND THEM AND THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE THE RULES!

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago

KIM GARDNER, DA SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE ACTIONS OF HER EMPLOYEES AND NOT CONTROLLING HER DEPT! THE ST LOUIS COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY SHOULD BE SCREAMING ABOUT HER NOW THAT THEY HAVE THE BACKING OF THE STATE A.G. SOMEONE IN HER DEPT NEEDS TO GET FIRED TO SEND HER A MESSAGE! GOOD, INSIGHTFUL REMARKS!

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

be fun when the AG shows up and defends them

william couch
william couch
3 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

Don’t hold your breath..

joe shmoe
joe shmoe
3 years ago

charges need to be filed now against the AG for violating the couples rights

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  joe shmoe

Hi, joe shmoe. It wasn’t the state’s Attorney General. It was the negro St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner that tampered with evidence and charged the couple.

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago

Free trips for short circuit gardner to blm meetings!

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago

Free trips for short circuit gardner to blm meetings!

Bill
Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  joe shmoe

You mean the couple’s CIVIL rights.

Lunch_Money
Lunch_Money
3 years ago

the charges have never been about law, it’s about control

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago
Reply to  Lunch_Money

AMEN! YOU UNDERSTAND THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE WELL!

WildernessOfMirrors
WildernessOfMirrors
3 years ago

Finally a 2A victory for our side. How about bringing Gardner up on evidence tampering charges.

Her challenger in the primary, Mary Pat Carl is a white woman. Hopefully she wins and the reign of Soros stupidity ends. I wonder how much he is sinking into Gardner’s campaign again.

The McCloskeys should sue Gardner and the city for the whole charade, including the evidence tampering.

Last Puff
Last Puff
3 years ago

We are on the 10 yard line, it isn’t a touchdown yet.

I agree on evidence tampering charges. That is a serious civil rights violation which seems to me warrants the DOJ stepping in. But, since much of the DOJ is swarming with swamp creatures while the McCloskeys are well off white people, I don’t see that happening.

WildernessOfMirrors
WildernessOfMirrors
3 years ago
Reply to  Last Puff

Perhaps the McCloskeys, if they are smart will bring the evidence tampering case. I hope they have been redpilled. I hope they also sue Gardner for trying to indict them.

CNN sucks!
CNN sucks!
3 years ago

He gave hilldog millions and she lost, so there is still hope.

GoodScienceFYou
GoodScienceFYou
3 years ago

The McCloskeys are democrats, liberals. This is a wake up for them.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago

…but not leftists.

GoodScienceFYou
GoodScienceFYou
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

It is interesting to watch when an old Democrat, wakes up to the fact that the communists have taken over the party. They think it is the party of “social justice” but now they know it is no justice and a lot of tyranny and is “Just us.”

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago

The term “social justice” is just a nice, cleaned up word for COMMUNISM

GoodScienceFYou
GoodScienceFYou
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

It is interesting to watch when an old Democrat, wakes up to the fact that the communists have taken over the party. They think it is the party of “social justice” but now they know it is no justice and a lot of tyranny and is “Just us.”

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

SOCIOLOGICALLY, THEY NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHERE AS FAR AS BARRICADE LOOT MAYHEM AKA BLACK LIVES MATTER GOES WHERE THEY STAND! THE LEFTIST democ-RATS ARE COMING FOR YOUR PROPERTY, YOUR GUNS, YOUR RIGHTS AND YOUR KIDS! MR. MCCLOSKEY SEEMS TO GET IT!

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
3 years ago

I hope it is.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
3 years ago

tell me now, is anybody kicking in nancy peolsi’s front door?

WadeBaker
WadeBaker
3 years ago

It’s about time.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

She is the first black attorney for the city of St. Louis and a literally bought and paid for Soros attorney. People voted for her!

St. Louis prosecutor targeting McCloskeys gets $78,000 infusion
from Soros-linked group
A Soros-backed group also gave to Gardner’s 2016 campaign

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/soros-linked-pac-donates-77000-st-louis-circuit-attorney-targeting

“Gardner was elected in 2016 on a promise to redress the scourge of historical inequality and rebuild trust in the criminal justice system among communities of color,” reads the lawsuit filed Monday in federal court.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/796199881/st-louis-chief-prosecutor-accuses-city-police-union-of-racist-conspiracy-in-laws

Racial hatred blinds her. She has no legal leg to stand on in this situation.
She is incredibly dumb!comment image

Bill
Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

You don’t have to be smart to be an SJW. How else would they be so inept?

Kilemal
Kilemal
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

She’s fugly.

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

nice free trips on taxpayer dime, sugar cookie!

ed
ed
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

She looks like she rode on the little yellow bus back in her school days…..

CNN sucks!
CNN sucks!
3 years ago
Reply to  ed

Its a tranny, just like Lori Lightfoot, Kamala Knees, and a host of other lib mayors, judges and so on.

Kilemal
Kilemal
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

This Persecutor is the literal ditto of another of soros’ paid, persecutorial, pernicious pimple-fart in chiraq,
ill-noise, Dim Fox, among others in multiple cities across the US. Come on, America, soros worked for the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) against his own people saying, essentially, “If I don’t do it someone else will.” Talk about amoral, nihiliatic mercenaryism. Don’t turn your back on this democrat.

Bill
Bill
3 years ago

Look at the above photo. The guy in the red backpack is also holding a gun, and it is pointed right at the homeowner. The homeowner is not aiming his gun at anybody. But this red backpack guy is, and THAT, to me, constitutes intent, or something more dangerous.

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

they should have taken the knee, got shot, and have their house burned.. Thats what the sugar cookie is charging them for. After all she hates whites and is a racist,,,,comment image

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

The homeowner was dead where he stood. The threat was the rifle pointing at him!

Brian Ozzy
Brian Ozzy
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

Yeh except that it’s actually a video camera with a boom mike. Not counted as an offensive weapon just yet!

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago

Kim Gardner, Circuit Attorney for St. Louis who brought charges against a local couple must be arrested at once!

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago

Kim Gardner, Circuit Attorney for St. Louis who brought charges against a local couple must be arrested at once!

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago

black holding and pointing a rifle, no charges. He ws within his rights to shoot them and burn the house.. -democrat justice.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago

Trying to usurp the Second Amendment is as ridiculous as a state or other jurisdiction deciding to “go rogue” and suspend, say, the First Amendment rights to freedom of expression.

I employ both There is a sign posted on my front gate that has a set of crosshairs and a caption reading, “If you can read this, you are within range.”

Be safe, be trained, be alert.

MajorTom
MajorTom
3 years ago

Sue!

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
3 years ago

That’s not enough!
Charges should be filed against Gardner for abusing the power of her office.

L-Dan
L-Dan
3 years ago

The Mayor of Seattle didn’t get it either until a similar violent mob marched up her own street chanting “eat the rich”.

Jack Holan
Jack Holan
3 years ago

Whenever the Left or associated organizations can’t bully their way by force they turn to the Courts if they think they have a stacked deck.

CNN sucks!
CNN sucks!
3 years ago

I wonder who they will vote for in November?

Leonard Payne
Leonard Payne
3 years ago

Mr. Attorney General, if the “Right” is there …. why do we need any “legislation” to say so – the Constitution is quite clear.
Further, read the Constitution …. no where, in the text of the Constitution, will you find the words, “until”, “unless”, or “except” – thus, the Second Amendment IS “absolute” making any, and all, “gun-laws” UNLAWFUL on their face.

mike reynold
mike reynold
3 years ago

sue sue sue against these radical libs communists

jean
jean
3 years ago

Those guys who wanted to invade someone’s castle were very lucky. Imagine what would have happened if the dweller were a Tx Ranger having little fun at home with some of his men…very lucky, indeed…after a few packs of beer, light beer of course.

gaz thewoodsman
gaz thewoodsman
3 years ago

So why is this prosecutor still employed?

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
3 years ago

Too bad they didn’t kill the BLM people! I would find them innocent if I was a juror!

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago

WHAT GEORGE SOROS FLUNKEY DISTRICT ATTY KIM GARDNER IS DOING IS CALLED PREEMPTION AND THIS IS WHY GEORGE SOROS HAS BEEN GOING AROUND THE COUNTRY BEING DISTRICT ATTORNEYS AND ATTORNEY GENERALS PROMOTING THE democ-RAT PARTY IDEOLOGY! ENFORCEMENT IS 9/10 OF THE LAW! THE MCCLOSKEYS ARE WEALTHY ATTORNEYS AND THIS BARRICADE LOOT MAYHEM AKA BLACK LIVES MATTER MOB BROKE DOWN A GATE TO THREATEN THEIR HOME ON PURPOSE! FACT IS MCCLOSKEY NEEDS TO GET INVOLVED IN POLITICS AS A REPUBLICAN! THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF ST. LOUIS, MO NEEDS TO GET HIM OR HIS ATTY TO RUN AGAINST KIM GARDNER! THEY HAVE THE PUBLICITY ON THEIR SIDE! SUPER SUMMER RIGHTISTS!

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